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When is the option to delete field in an attribute table enabled in QGIS? I'm in editing mode and still am not able to delete a field...

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That button is only avaliable for a PostGIS layer. You can delete table columns via the "table manager" plugin.

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Isn't it a bit annoying to have to install a plugin in order to delete fields? thanks – vascobnunes Jul 18 '11 at 13:02
That is true, but this is more of a limitation of OGR driver which QGIS use for read/write vector data. See this bug report: trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1934 . Fortunatley a fix is in the pipeline: trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2671 :) – maning Jul 19 '11 at 11:35
You can also always open the *.dbf file directly in, for example, OpenOffice Calc and change, add, or delete columns of data. Just make sure all rows are in the same order as in the beginning when you save (e.g. by using a FID field). – SAnderka Jul 25 '11 at 12:49

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